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Good for the money
Pros: Cheap, quiet, small, stable temp, easy access lid with high visibility, turner adjustable for all size eggs
Cons: No hygrometer and temp in Celsius (buy a couple external units!). Water bottle is a mess and humidity hard to control.
Nifty little incubator, temp constant, turner works well and adjustable, quiet, small, inexpensive. You’ll need a couple thermometer hygrometer units (which you should have anyway). The water bottle is a mess, just add a little water twice a day or use a couple bottle caps!
Purchase Price
39.99
Purchase Date
6/1/24

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Water freshner
Pros: Keeps large chicken water clear, no slime
We've used it for years and am very happy with it keeping our large chicken waterers clean from slime and algae. It only takes a small amount so a bottle lasts a long time.
Purchase Price
$5.87
Purchase Date
3/2/22
Great prevention for mites, ants, and pretty much every bug
Pros: Keeps our coop mite-free for many years.
Cons: If using outdoors, need to redo it every time it rains.
I've used it for over 20 years in our two macaw parrot cages to keep fruit flies and pantry moths at bay. Since we got chickens 8 years ago, we've used it religiously every month. I use an old parmesan cheese container as a sprinkler and do the floor and nest boxes.

When we get ants a couple of times a year in the summer, I go around the house with it, and after a day, no more ants.

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Peep-Chicken
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I own one hen, first time hobbiest
Pros: Gorgeous, Rare, Docile, Friendly, Incredible Forger, Diva, Clean, Good mothers.
Cons: Sometimes doesn't listen and refuses to be touched, but calm while holding. Said to be flighty.
In love with this breed!! <3
Purchase Price
Free
Purchase Date
Apr. 1, 2024
My favorite chicken breed!
Pros: Great egg layers, great foragers, friendly with humans, alert, fly well (helps to escape predators), beautiful, cold hardy
Cons: Hate confinement, some hens wander from the flock
Appenzeller Spitzhaubens are my favorite chicken breed. Not only are they great layers of white eggs but they’re also super friendly with humans (yes, even the roosters), come in a variety of different colors, great foragers, can tolerate very cold temperatures, and are good at escaping predators due to their small size! The only disadvantage they have is that they don’t like being confined. They can be kept in the coop occasionally but they will let you know that they don’t appreciate it. (They get noisy). I have hatched and raised multiple Appenzeller Spitzhaubens and I think they are the best 100%.

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OverEZ
Cons: No ventilation
These "shoeboxes" are torture chambers for chickens. Freezer box in the winter, oven in the summer, practically no ventilation, unnecessary large windows letting sun in, too high and narrow roosts, chickens must drop to the floor hard because these shoeboxes provide no landing space. Would give it 0 rating.
Purchase Price
2000
Purchase Date
2024
Adorable
Pros: Adorable, friendly and docile, great brooders & mothers, adorable, curious, funny, adorable.
Cons: Needs trimming around the eyes, takes a little longer to get used to you, small eggs.
These little floofs are GREAT moms for any chicks you want to hatch, though depending on egg size they may not fit many under. Occasionally you'll need to very gently trim the feathers around their eyes with scissors, but it's all worth it for having a friendship with THIS. LOOK AT THEM. LOOK IT UP. They have all sorts of different styles, and they're all cute. I personally like the gray one in this page's first photo's style best.

Overall, they make AMAZING pets.
Purchase Price
20$ for 8 eggs, but they're hard to breed without making frazzles and it was a long way away.
Purchase Date
May 13, 2024
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Easy install and minimum space required
Pros: Easy install with 6 screws
Complete
Opens sideways
Even fits on a large nest-box/mini coop
Cons: Opens automatically after a while after closing during the day.
Setting time in the morning and lumen in the evening is not possible.
I wanted to separate my broody in a seperate part of the run to brood quietly without disturbances. And keep her and eventually her chicks safe in the night.
Side effect: Because I moved her and couldn’t go back to her favourite nest she was no longer broody within a very short time. :)

The large nestbox already had the perfect size for this chicken door. Really easy to install with 6 screws.

The chicken door is probably not big enough for large fowl.
Purchase Price
$ 143
Purchase Date
2024/10/5 (10-05-2024)
Super friendly!
Pros: They love people, mine run up to me every time I walk in there
They're very cuddly, and mine really enjoy hugs
Cons: Rather loud if you don't give them attention right away
Mine tend to peck me if I don't pet them soon enough
Easter Eggers are one of the best "breeds" there are. I've had seven so far, and all of them have been super sweet. They're the first ones to greet me in the morning, and whenever I squat down, they run up to me for hugs. One of mine is blind, and she makes a LOT of noise if I go out there and don't say hi to her right away. Once I pick her up and snuggle her she quiets down instantly.

Amazing birds, five stars, would recommend!
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Honest and informative review
Very inexpensive little incubator for 4 eggs or less. I bet it would be good for quail.
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This is a review of a very cheap incubator ; while most people would not want it for hatching it would come in very handy for someone who is not 100% sure of their broody's hen commitment, or to set backup eggs as did the author.
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Excellent foragers
Pros: Great foragers, relatively big eggs, lays pretty much daily, colorful, flighty (can be a disadvantage to some), long lifespan, hardy, tolerates confinement
Cons: Some are hard to approach, roosters can be aggressive
These are super pretty! We have two at the moment, each with different bloodlines. They are both quite different, but that’s what makes them so awesome and unique! They are great foragers, glad to have them in our flock.:highfive:
Purchase Price
$6 per hatching egg
Purchase Date
May 2023

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